Drinks
Crafty Cocktails
24 JANUARY 2018 I LIC COURIER I www.qns.com
BY ANGELA MATUA
AMATUA@QNS.COM
Though COFFEED is best known
for its locally roasted coffee and
philanthropic bent, the chain is
branching out to offer its cus-tomers
a variety of unique cocktails and
local brews.
Its flagship location at 37-18 North-ern
Blvd. in Long Island City, which
opened in 2012, is now home to the
COFFEED Bar and Lounge. In addition
to serving its fair trade coffee and baked
goods, the site stays open later to offer
its distinctive cocktails.
The bar is located in a larger building
that houses a variety of businesses, from
Standard Motor Products to Kodak and
Chinese Theatre Works. According to
the bar manager, Alfonso Biondi Jr.,
COFFEED hosted a soft opening on
Nov. 3 to welcome the many people
who work in the building’s businesses.
“It’s a very tight knit community over
here. It’s comforting,” Biondi said. “I
already feel like in the short time I’ve
been here I have gotten to know a lot
of the faces and the usuals and what
their usual drinks are.”
Biondi, who grew up in Flushing and
helped to run COFFEED’s location at
Jones Beach, said the owner Frank
“Turtle” Raffaele got a liquor license
for the establishment last summer and
enlisted Biondi to run the bar.
Customers will find “a lot of twists to
traditional cocktails” and local beers and
